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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – For many people a sweet carrot pulled from the soil or a spicy pepper picked fresh from the garden isn’t how they get their vegetables, if they get them at all.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/Our-Work/Building-Food-Security/Education-Programs/Seed-to-Supper">Seed to Supper program</a>, a partnership between Oregon State University’s Extension Service and the Oregon Food Bank, is working to change that. The free, five-week course teaches adults from low-income families how to grow and enjoy their own vegetables, said Pami Opfer, a coordinator for Extension’s Master Gardener Program.</p>
<p>More than 800 people have completed the program, taught in large part by Master Gardeners, in 55 classes since 2013, according to Opfer. This year Seed to Supper has expanded to include Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lane, Marion, Polk, Hood River, Tillamook, Umatilla, Morrow, Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties.</p>
<p>On a recent evening in Corvallis, a group of 13 people gathered around a table, pulling apart tiny starts of marjoram, parsley and thyme, then picking up bamboo chopsticks to gently tuck them into plastic containers filled with potting soil. Jennifer Klammer, an OSU Extension Master Gardener since 2011, and volunteer Donna Durbin led them through the process.</p>
<p>The two women, who founded a garden at their church that donates more than 2,000 pounds of produce a year to assist local residents in need, took it upon themselves to start the program in Linn and Benton counties in the winter of 2013 after Klammer saw information about Seed to Supper on the food bank’s website.</p>
<p>“Working in the garden and donating food, it seemed like there was a missing link,” Klammer said. “This gives people a sense of control over their food source. It’s especially hard for low-income folks to get high-quality produce. It’s expensive. But if you can grow a salad bowl on your deck and it’s easy, why not?”</p>
<p>Class participant Cindel Mikesell agreed.</p>
<p>“I tell people I know who have balconies and say they can’t garden, ‘Yes, you can,’ Mikesell said. &nbsp;“I’ve read about a woman in England that grew $5,000 worth of food on her balcony. I’d like to do that.”</p>
<p>Breanne and Bobby Taylor, who brought along their new baby, said they came to the class so they could help Bobby’s aging father manage his garden and to learn time-saving tips that would help them as new parents, who both work full-time and manage a community garden plot.</p>
<p>To help, they’ll receive a 96-page handbook, seeds and starts.</p>
<p>“They have the booklet, which is always a reference,” Durbin said. “And they can always contact the Master Gardeners. People end up feeling connected. Their response has been overwhelmingly positive.”</p>
<p>Participants learn the basics in classes that include lessons in how to build healthy soil and plan, plant, care for and harvest a garden.</p>
<p>Brittney Fry, who enthusiastically jotted notes as the class went on, said she’d shown up because she’s motivated to garden but has never done it before.</p>
<p>“I have a weed patch now,” she said. “I have three small kids, and I’m really excited getting them into it – growing things they’ll love and enjoy.”</p>
<p><strong>Upcoming classes are being held in the following locations:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://extension.oregonstate.edu/linn/seed-supper">Linn and Benton counties</a></p>
<p>Albany: March 19 to April 16</p>
<p>Lebanon: March 10 to April 7</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/Our-Work/Building-Food-Security/Education-Programs/Take-a-Class">Portland metro area</a></p>
<p>Portland: March 1-29; April 12 to May 17</p>
<p>Sandy: March 7 to April 4</p>
<p>In other counties, check with your <a href="http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/local-osu-master-gardener-programs">local Master Gardener program</a>.</p>
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<p>Rather than just waiting patiently for any pollinator that comes their way to start the next generation of seeds, some plants appear to recognize the best suitors and “turn on” to increase the chance of success, according to a new study published this week.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Rather than just waiting patiently for any pollinator that comes their way to start the next generation of seeds, some plants appear to recognize the best suitors and “turn on” to increase the chance of success, according to a new study published this week.</p>
<p>Being picky may increase access to genetic diversity and thus give the plants a competitive advantage over their neighbors, but there is a risk, the researchers say. If the preferred pollinators decline for any reason, the plants may not reproduce as easily and could decline as well.</p>
<p>These findings stem from the discovery that the showy red and yellow blooms of <em>Heliconia tortuosa</em>, an exotic tropical plant, recognize certain hummingbirds by the way the birds sip the flowers’ nectar. The plants respond by allowing pollen to germinate, ultimately increasing the chances for successful seed formation.</p>
<p>Researchers from Oregon State University and the Smithsonian Institution announced their results in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a professional journal. “To our knowledge, these findings provide the first evidence of pollinator recognition in plants,” they wrote.</p>
<p>Matt Betts, an associate professor in the Oregon State University College of Forestry is the lead author. Adam S. Hadley, also at Oregon State, and W. John Kress of the Smithsonian Institution are co-authors. The National Science Foundation provided support for the research.</p>
<p>In experiments at the Las Cruces Biological Station in Costa Rica, Betts and Hadley began by trying to pollinate Heliconia plants by hand. Although such methods are commonly used in plant propagation, the researchers were puzzled by their lack of success. So in an enclosure known as an aviary, they exposed Heliconia to six species of hummingbirds and a butterfly. The team discovered that two types of hummers – violet sabrewings and green hermits – achieved more than 80 percent success in fertilizing the plants.</p>
<p>By controlling the sources of pollen, the researchers excluded the possibility that fertilization could be explained by specific birds carrying higher quality pollen.</p>
<p>“The ones that turned it on tended to have long curved bills that could reach the nectar,” said Betts, who works in OSU’s Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society. “The ones that couldn’t turn it on had shorter bills and couldn’t get as much nectar.”</p>
<p>By modifying their hand pollinating methods to mimic birds extracting nectar, the researchers were able to achieve similar success in fertilizing the plants. “That closed the loop on the mechanism,” said Betts.</p>
<p>The two most effective hummingbird species also shared another characteristic: Compared to five other species, they tended to travel more widely across the landscape. The researchers hypothesized that since far-ranging species tend to collect pollen from more distant plants, the pollen would exhibit more genetic diversity and enhance the plant’s competitive fitness.</p>
<p>Pollen from nearby plants could come from close relatives and thus have reduced genetic diversity, the authors wrote.</p>
<p>“The mechanism may have evolved to enable the plant to sort out pollinators that are likely to be carrying high-quality pollen from those carrying poor-quality pollen,” added Betts. “It’s a big energy savings. If you bother to make a seed and fruit every time you get pollen, that’s a lot of energy expenditure; you could be making a seed from your siblings’ genes. If you make a seed or fruit only from distant high-quality pollen, it could be an adaptive advantage.”</p>
<p>Examples of co-evolution of plants and pollinators have been known since Charles Darwin’s day, but the mechanisms that underlie these networks are poorly understood. It’s possible, Betts said, that other examples of pollinator recognition could occur in tropical forests.</p>
<p>“It is now well-known that the high cognitive capacity of many vertebrate pollinators allows them to recognize and specialize on particular flower species,” he and his co-authors wrote. “A growing body of research indicates that plants may also exhibit complex decision-making behavior.”</p>
<p>Betts has conducted research for six years at Las Cruces. The results of this and other studies there, he said, suggest that the integrity of these ecosystems could depend on maintaining corridors to enhance pollinator movement and survival. In some areas, tropical forests have been broken up into smaller fragments as development and agriculture have expanded.</p>
<p>“We need to be more careful in how we manage landscapes in order to maintain the movements and occurrence of these key species,” he said. “We know that if we make corridors to connect patches, if we have bigger patches of tropical forests, those species will be maintained, and this plant and its pollinators will do a lot better.”</p>
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<p>Scientists for the first time have simultaneously compared widespread impacts from two of the most common forest insects in the West – mountain pine beetle and western spruce budworm – an advance that could lead to more effective management policies.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists for the first time have simultaneously compared widespread impacts from two of the most common forest insects in the West – mountain pine beetle and western spruce budworm – an advance that could lead to more effective management policies.</p>
<p>By combining data from satellites, airplanes and ground-based crews, the researchers have shown in unprecedented detail how insects affect Western forests over decades.</p>
<p>In the past, forest managers relied on airplane surveys to evaluate insect damage over broad areas. However, satellites can reveal patterns at a much finer scale. By combining both types of data, scientists are refining estimates of damage and showing how they may relate to other factors that determine forest structure and composition.</p>
<p>“This is the first time anyone has compared the impacts from these two insects in consistent units of change going all the way back to 1970,” said Garrett Meigs, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Vermont. Meigs conducted his analysis while he was a Ph.D. student in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. He worked with <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/kennedy/">Robert Kennedy</a>, an expert in landscape analysis and an assistant professor in OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.</p>
<p>They published their findings in this week’s issue of <em>Forest Ecology and Management</em>, a professional journal.</p>
<p>Outbreaks of both insects occur in cycles and can affect millions of acres of forest lands from year to year. The mountain pine beetle has killed lodgepole pine trees across much of western Canada and the United States in recent decades. Western spruce budworm defoliates – but does not normally kill – Douglas-fir, spruce and true firs. However, repeated years of western spruce budworm attack can weaken trees and make them vulnerable to other stresses, which may eventually kill them.</p>
<p>“Mortality from bark beetles is only the beginning of long-term change,” said Helen Maffei, a U.S. Forest Service scientist in Bend, Oregon, who supported the study. “Dead trees fall and decay, and forest regrowth begins and continues over many decades. This new technique can help us understand not only how insect outbreaks are initiated and spread but also address the question, ‘What comes next’? It can help us better understand the process of recovery.”</p>
<p>The new method of using satellites, aerial surveys and forest inventory data enables scientists to identify hotspots of insect activity that may need special attention from forest managers in the future.</p>
<p>“By blending the richness of the Forest Service data with the robustness of the satellite signal, I think we have a really useful new approach to understanding insect patterns on the landscape,” said Kennedy.</p>
<p>The new methods aren’t yet available to businesses, government agencies and other organizations, but through a partnership between Oregon State and Google, that may change. Kennedy is working with the company to use satellite data and new analytical procedures in a system that would be accessible to land managers. The system will be freely available on Google’s Earth Engine, a platform for planetary data and analysis.</p>
<p>“If successful, it would mean that agencies could begin working with the satellite data and potentially take the next step in merging with the Forest Service observation data directly,” said Kennedy.</p>
<p>The report is online in OSU’s Scholar’s Archive, http://hdl.handle.net/1957/55196. Support was provided by the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program and the USDA Forest Service.</p>
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<p>People with disabilities have unmet medical needs and poorer overall health throughout their lives, and as a result should be recognized as a health disparity group, a team of policy researchers has found.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – People with disabilities have unmet medical needs and poorer overall health throughout their lives, and as a result should be recognized as a health disparity group so more attention can be directed to improving their quality of life, a team of policy researchers has found.</p>
<p>“Many of the health concerns of people with disabilities, including diabetes, heart disease and obesity, are largely preventive and unrelated to the disability,” said <a href="http://health.oregonstate.edu/people/krahn-gloria">Gloria Krahn</a> of Oregon State University’s <a href="http://health.oregonstate.edu/">College of Public Health and Human Sciences</a>. Krahn is lead author on a new paper advocating the recognition.</p>
<p>“There’s no overt reason, based on the diagnosed condition, that people with disabilities should have higher rates of these diseases,” said Krahn, the Barbara E. Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy and a professor of practice in public health at OSU. “There may always be some disparity in health because of a person’s disability, but people can have disabilities and also be healthy.”</p>
<p>The researchers’ findings were published this month in an article in the “<a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302182">American Journal of Public Health</a>.” Co-authors are Deborah Klein Walker of Abt Associates and Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo of the National Institutes of Health. The article was based on research conducted primarily while Krahn was working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p>
<p>People with significant disabilities – defined federally as functional limitations of movement, vision, hearing or problem-solving – make up about 12 percent of the U.S. population. Reducing the incidence of preventable diseases in this population could lead to improved quality of life as well as significant reductions in health care costs, Krahn said.</p>
<p>Race and ethnicity are used to define health disparity populations by state and federal governments. Disability is not recognized as a disparity population, even though people with disabilities are, on average, in poorer health than the rest of the population. Adults with disabilities are 2.5 times more likely to report skipping or delaying health care because of costs and they have higher rates of chronic disease than the general population, for example.</p>
<p>Establishing disability as a health disparity group is a way of bringing attention to a group that clearly has unmet needs, Krahn said.</p>
<p>The researchers suggest that recognizing people with disabilities as a health disparity population could lead to:</p>
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<li>Improved access to health care and human services for the disabled;</li>
<li>Increased data on the disabled population, aiding in policy-making; </li>
<li>Added training for health care providers, strengthening the workforce and improving care for the disabled; </li>
<li>Improved public health programs that are designed to be inclusive of people with disabilities;</li>
<li>Enhanced emergency-preparedness; people with disabilities can be especially vulnerable in emergency or disaster situations.</li>
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<p>A focus on the health disparity could lead to creation of health promotion materials that are accessible to people with disabilities; development of weight-loss or smoking cessation programs to serve the disabled; and emergency evacuation and shelter training for people with disabilities, Krahn suggested.</p>
<p>“To say that disability is a health disparity will mark a significant shift in approach toward health care of people with disabilities,” Krahn said. “It would influence public health practice, research and policy.”</p>
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college of public health and human sciencesscientific research and advancesThu, 26 Feb 2015 18:35:34 +0000klampem16286 at http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncshttp://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/feb/people-disabilities-experience-unrecognized-health-disparities-new-research-showsMap outlines western Oregon landslide risks from a subduction zone earthquakehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OSU-All-News/~3/JSHullQW6AE/map-outlines-western-oregon-landslide-risks-subduction-zone-earthquake
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – New landslide maps have been developed that will help the Oregon Department of Transportation determine which coastal roads and bridges in Oregon are most likely to be usable following a major subduction zone earthquake that is expected in the future of the Pacific Northwest.</p>
<p><a href="http://1.usa.gov/18352DF">The maps were created</a> by Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, or DOGAMI, as part of a research project for ODOT. They outline the landslide risks following a large earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone.</p>
<p>The mapping is part of ongoing ODOT efforts to preserve the critical transportation routes that will facilitate response and recovery.</p>
<p>“Landslides are a natural part of both the Oregon Coast Range and Cascade Range, but it’s expected there will be a significant number of them that are seismically induced from a major earthquake,” said Michael Olsen, an assistant professor in the OSU School of Civil and Construction Engineering. “A massive earthquake can put extraordinary additional strain on unstable slopes that already are prone to landslides.”</p>
<p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/r4seqp">Landslides are already</a> a serious geologic hazard for western Oregon. But during an earthquake, lateral ground forces can be as high as half the force of gravity.</p>
<p>The Coast Range is of special concern, officials say, because it will be the closest part of the state to the actual subduction zone earthquake, and will experience the greatest shaking and ground movement. The research identified some of the most vulnerable landslide areas in Oregon as parts of the Coast Range between Tillamook and Astoria, and from Cape Blanco south to the California border – in each case, from the coast to about 30 miles inland.</p>
<p>“Major landslides have been identified by DOGAMI throughout western Oregon using high-resolution lidar mapping,” Olsen said. “Some experts believe that a number of these landslides date back to the last subduction zone earthquake in Oregon, in 1700. Coast Range slopes that are filled with weak layers of sedimentary rock are particularly vulnerable, and many areas are already on the verge of failure.”</p>
<p>According to the new map, the highway corridors to the coast that will face comparatively less risk from landslides will be Oregon Highway 36 from near Eugene to Florence; Oregon Highway 38 from near Cottage Grove to Reedsport; Oregon Highway 18 from Salem to Lincoln City; and large portions of U.S. Highway 30 from Portland to Astoria. However, landslides or other damages could occur on any road to the coast or in the Cascade Range due to the anticipated high levels of ground shaking.</p>
<p>The new research, along with other considerations, will help ODOT and other officials determine which areas merit the most investment in coming years as part of long-term planning for the expected earthquake. Given the high potential for damage and minimal resources available for mitigation, experts may choose to focus their efforts on highway corridors that are expected to receive less damage from the earthquake, Olsen said.</p>
<p>The research reflected in the new map considered such factors as slope, direction of ground movement, soil type, vegetation, distance to rivers, roads and fault locations, peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, annual precipitation averages, and other factors.</p>
<p>ODOT, Oregon State and DOGAMI have been state leaders in research on risks posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, earthquake and tsunami impacts, and initiatives to help the state prepare for a future disaster that scientists say is a certainty.</p>
<p>Officials said it’s important to consider not just the damage to structures that can occur as a result of an earthquake, but also landslide and transportation issues.</p>
<p>“ODOT recognizes the potential not only for casualties due to landslides during and after an earthquake, but also for the likelihood of isolating whole segments of the state’s population,” one ODOT official said. “Thousands of people in the coastal communities would be stranded and cut off from rescue, relief and recovery that would arrive by surface transport.”</p>
<p>ODOT recently completed a seismic vulnerability assessment and selected lifeline corridor routes to prioritize following an earthquake.&nbsp; ODOT also maintains an unstable slopes program, evaluating the frequency of rockfalls and landslides affecting highway corridors.</p>
<p>DOGAMI recently released another open file report as part of the Oregon Resilience Plan, which evaluated multiple potential hazards resulting from a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, including landslides, liquefaction, and tsunamis.</p>
<p>Some recent efforts at OSU have also focused on understanding the different concerns raised by a subduction zone earthquake compared to the type of strike-slip faults more common in California, on which many seismic plans are based. Subduction earthquakes tend to be larger, affect a wider area and last longer.</p>
<p>Following are publications that are available:</p>
<p><strong>DOGAMI Open-File Report O-15-01, Landslide Susceptibility Analysis of Lifeline Routes in the Oregon Coast Range, </strong>by Rubini Mahalingam; Michael J. Olsen; Mahyar Sharifi-Mood; and Daniel T. Gillins, Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering.&nbsp; The report can be purchased on DVD for $30 each from the Nature of the Northwest Information Center (NNW), 800 N.E. Oregon St., Suite 965, Portland, Ore., 97232. You may also call NNW at (971) 673-2331 or order online at www.NatureNW.org. There is a $4.95 shipping and handling charge for all mailed items.</p>
<p><strong>ODOT Research Report SPR-740, Impacts of Potential Seismic Landslides on Lifeline Corridors, </strong>by Michael J. Olsen; Scott A. Ashford; Rubini Mahalingam; Mahyar Sharifi-Mood; Matt O’Banion and Daniel T. Gillins, Oregon State University School of Civil and Construction Engineering.&nbsp; Download the report: &nbsp;<a href="http://1.usa.gov/18352DF">http://1.usa.gov/18352DF</a></p>
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<p>The students at the University of Oregon are facing a serious outbreak of meningitis, the CDC has called for a massive immunization program, and OSU students are heading south to help out.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – The students at the University of Oregon are facing a rare health emergency that’s led the Center for Disease Control to call for a meningitis vaccine for the entire student body – and the pharmacy students at Oregon State University are helping to answer the call.</p>
<p>Next week, on March 2-5, up to 40 pharmacy students at OSU will journey to the University of Oregon in Eugene to assist in a mass vaccination effort designed to help protect the health of their fellow Oregon college students.</p>
<p>The program will be organized and supervised by Safeway pharmacists, who have the contract to administer the vaccine, which may cost $7 million or more before 20,000 students are vaccinated in a three-dose regimen. The unusual and aggressive public health response was decided when the CDC declared a meningitis outbreak after four UO students acquired this disease since January, and one died.</p>
<p>“Meningitis is fairly rare and difficult to transmit, usually requiring hours of close contact,” said Lorinda Anderson, an OSU faculty member who manages the immunization initiatives for the College of Pharmacy. “But it’s a serious disease, it can be fatal, and the close confines of a school are one of the situations in which it has to be taken very seriously.”</p>
<p>Vaccines will be offered from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Matthew Knight Arena on the UO campus next Monday through Thursday, with OSU students assisting other pharmacists in the program. Vaccine will be made available to all UO undergraduate students. More information is available online at <a href="http://bit.ly/1LsEFnR">http://bit.ly/1LsEFnR</a></p>
<p>It’s unusual for such large numbers of people to need vaccinations in such a short time, Anderson said.</p>
<p>“This is a unique opportunity to help our friends at the University of Oregon, working with other members of the Eugene medical community,” Anderson said. “Giving vaccinations has become a common part of the training for pharmacists, and it’s rewarding that we’re able to assist in this situation. The need for mass vaccinations such as this is really quite rare, and we’re glad we can help.”</p>
<p>The meningitis vaccine being used is fairly new, Anderson said, and designed for people ranging in age from 10 to 25. Meningitis is most common in young adults such as those of college age. Efforts will be made to bill insurance programs for the vaccine when possible, she said.</p>
<p>The vaccine itself is generally safe, Anderson said, similar in terms of side effects to the influenza vaccine. The most common side effects are reactions at the injection site. This new vaccine is not available to the general public, and there have been no reported cases of meningitis recently in the Eugene area beyond the university campus.</p>
<p>People who are infected with meningitis have about a 10 percent chance of it causing inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, Anderson said, where it can cause the most serious problems. It’s treatable with antibiotics, especially if treatment is begun early enough.</p>
<p>Sequential doses of the vaccine will be necessary at two and six months, Anderson said, and plans for those vaccinations in Eugene have not yet been made.</p>
<p>There have been no recent cases of meningitis at OSU, and no mass vaccination programs are planned there. However, vaccines are available to OSU students through Student Health Services. More information is available online at <a href="http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/">http://studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/</a></p>
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<p>NEWPORT, Ore. – A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is studying an unusual fish captured alive in a crab pot near Port Orford this week called a striped knifejaw that is native to Japan, as well as China and Korea.</p>
<p>The appearance in Oregon waters of the fish (<em>Oplegnathus fasciatus), </em>which is sometimes called a barred knifejaw or striped beakfish, may or may not be related to the Japanese tsunami of 2011, the researchers say, and it is premature to conclude that this non-native species may be established in Oregon waters.</p>
<p>But its appearance and survival certainly raises questions, according to OSU’s <a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/content/john-chapman">John Chapman</a>, an aquatic invasive species specialist at the university’s <a href="http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/">Hatfield Marine Science Center</a> in Newport.</p>
<p>“Some association with Japanese tsunami debris is a strong possibility, but we cannot rule out other options, such as the fish being carried over in ballast water of a ship or an aquarium fish being released locally,” Chapman said. “But finding a second knifejaw nearly two years after the discovery of fish in a drifting Japanese boat certainly gets my attention.”</p>
<p>In March 2013, five striped knifejaws were found alive in a boat near Long Beach, Washington, that had drifted over from Japan. Four of the fish were euthanized, but one was taken to the Seaside Aquarium, where it is still alive and well.</p>
<p>OSU marine ecologist <a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/content/jessica-miller">Jessica Miller</a> examined the four euthanized knifejaws from Washington in 2013, analyzing their otoliths, or ear bones, for clues to their origin.</p>
<p>“The young fish of these species are known to associate with drift and may be attracted to floating marine debris,” Miller said. “Japanese tsunami marine debris continues to arrive on beaches in Oregon and Washington – and some debris from Japan washed up on the southern Oregon coast this month – so it is not inconceivable that the Port Orford fish was associated with Japanese marine debris.</p>
<p>“The species is also found in other parts of Asia and the northwest Hawaiian islands, so it is native to a broader range than just Japan,” she added. “At this time, there is no evidence that they are successfully reproducing in Oregon.”</p>
<p><a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/content/ms-phd-students-department-fisheries-and-wildlife">Tom Calvanese</a>, an Oregon State graduate student researcher working with Oregon Sea Grant on the start-up of a new OSU field station in Port Orford, worked with the fisherman to secure the exotic species. The fish is approximately 13 centimeters in length, and thus not a fully grown adult, and was captured in a crab pot between Port Orford and Cape Blanco&nbsp; - just off the Elk River in southern Oregon.</p>
<p>“We are fortunate to have this occur in a fishing community that is ocean-aware,” Calvanese said. “The fisherman who caught the fish identified it as an exotic then transported it to shore alive, where the fish buyer was able to care for it. It was then brought to my attention, initiating a response from the scientific community that will result in an exciting learning opportunity for all.</p>
<p>“It appears to be in good shape and was swimming upright, though it had a small cut in its abdomen,” Calvanese said. “I talked to Keith Chandler at the Seaside Aquarium who suggested feeding it razor clams, which it took readily.”</p>
<p><a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/rumrill/">Steven Rumrill</a>, a biologist with the <a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/">Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife</a>, is working with Calvanese and others to transport the fish to a quarantine facility at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, where it will be under the care of OSU aquatic veterinarian Tim Miller-Morgan of Oregon Sea Grant.</p>
<p>“It is important that the fish be held in quarantine until the wound is healed and for sufficient time to ensure that it is free from any pathogens or parasites that could pose a threat to our native fishes,” Rumrill said.</p>
<p><a href="http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/people/sam-chan">Sam Chan</a>, an OSU invasive species expert affiliated with Oregon Sea Grant and vice-chair of the Oregon Invasive Species Council, has seen striped knifejaws in Japan and estimates this fish may be 1-2 years old.</p>
<p>“Therefore, it is unlikely to have left Japan in the 2011 tsunami,” Chan said, “but a boat could have been milling around Asian waters for the past 2-3 years and then picked up the fish and ridden the currents over. The big question is – are there more of these?”</p>
<p>Chan said Oregon Sea Grant – an OSU-based marine research, education and outreach program – would work with Oregon fishermen, crabbers and others to keep a lookout for additional striped knifejaws and other exotic species.</p>
<p>Calvanese posted a brief video of the fish on you-tube: <a href="http://youtu.be/XzA4NPXTYqg">http://youtu.be/XzA4NPXTYqg</a></p>
<p>Oregonians who believe they have spotted an invasive species are encouraged to report it at <a href="http://oregoninvasiveshotline.org">http://oregoninvasiveshotline.org</a>, or call 1-866-INVADER.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University’s Nutrition and Dietetics Club is celebrating National Nutrition Month on Wednesday, March 4, with an event in the Memorial Union quad from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Its theme of “Bite Into a Healthy Lifestyle” encourages everyone to adopt eating plans focused on making informed food choices and promoting overall health. The event will feature games, prizes, free food, and tips on how to stay healthy from guests representing Bob’s Red Mill, Trader Joes, Pacific Fruit Company, Food@OSU and more.</p>
<p>Activities will focus around vitamins, mineral and fiber content in food, and helping students, faculty and staff learn more about what makes a healthy, balanced meal. There will be free cookbooks for the first 200 participants, a competition to win a bullet blender, and other prizes.</p>
<p>“Eating a healthy, well-balanced meal is crucial to success in the rest of your life, including your academic success,” said Jessica Hummel, vice president of OSU’s Nutrition and Dietetics Club. “We want students and staff to stop in and learn some fun facts about food, and maybe look at the way they eat in a new way.”</p>
<p>As part of this public education campaign, the academy’s <a href="http://www.nationalnutritionmonth.org/nnm/">National Nutrition Month</a> website includes a variety of helpful tips, games, promotional tools and nutrition education resources, all designed to spread the message of good nutrition. &nbsp;</p>
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<p>OSU researchers have received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation that will allow them to outfit a pair of undersea gliders with acoustical sensors to make them "think like a fish."</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University researchers have received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation that will allow them to outfit a pair of undersea gliders with acoustical sensors to identify biological “hot spots” in the coastal ocean.</p>
<p>They also hope to develop an onboard computing system that will program the gliders to perform different functions depending on what they encounter.</p>
<p>In other words, the scientists say, they want to outfit a robotic undersea glider to “think like a fish.”</p>
<p>“We spend all of this time on ships, deploying instrumentation that basically is designed to see how ocean biology aggregates around physical features – like hake at the edge of the continental shelf or salmon at upwelling fronts,” said <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/barth/">Jack Barth</a>, a professor in OSU’s <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/">College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences</a> and a principal investigator on the project. “But that just gives us a two-week window into a particular area.</p>
<p>“We already have a basic understanding of the ecosystem,” Barth added. “Now we want to get a better handle of what kind of marine animals are out there, how many there are, where they are distributed, and how they respond to phytoplankton blooms, schools of baitfish or oceanic features. It will benefit a variety of stakeholders, from the fishing industry and resource managers to the scientific community.”</p>
<p>Barth is a physical oceanographer who knows the physical processes of the coastal ocean. He’ll work with <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/benoitbird/">Kelly Benoit-Bird</a>, a marine ecologist, who specializes in the relationships among marine organisms from tiny plankton to large whales. Her work utilizes acoustics to identify and track animals below the ocean surface – and it is these sensors that will open up a new world of research aboard the gliders.</p>
<p>“Our first goals are to understand the dynamics of the Pacific Northwest upwelling system, find the biological hotspots, and then see how long they last,” Benoit-Bird said. “Then we’d like to learn what we can about the distribution of prey and predators – and the relationship of both to oceanic conditions.”</p>
<p>Using robot-mounted acoustic sensors, the OSU researchers will be able to identify different kinds of marine animals using their unique acoustical signatures. Diving seabirds, for example, leave a trail of bubbles through the water like the contrail left by a jet. Zooplankton show up as a diffuse cloud. Schooling fish create a glowing, amoeba-shaped image.</p>
<p>“We’ve done this kind of work from ships, but you’re more or less anchored in one spot, which is limiting,” Benoit-Bird said. “By putting sensors on gliders, we hope to follow fish, or circle around a plankton bloom, or see how seabirds dive. We want to learn more about what is going on out there.”</p>
<p>Programming a glider to spend weeks out in the ocean and then “think” when it encounters certain cues, is a challenge that falls upon the third member of the research team, <a href="http://mime.oregonstate.edu/people/geoff-hollinger">Geoff Hollinger</a>, from OSU’s robotics program in the <a href="http://engineering.oregonstate.edu/">College of Engineering</a>. Undersea gliders operated by Oregon State already can be programmed to patrol offshore for weeks at a time, following a transect, moving up and down in the water column, and even rising to the surface to beam data back to onshore labs via satellite.</p>
<p>But the instruments aboard the gliders that measure temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen are comparatively simple and require limited power. Using sophisticated bioacoustics sensors that record huge amounts of data, and then programming the gliders to respond to environmental cues, is a significant technological advance.</p>
<p>“All of the technology is there,” Hollinger said, “but combining it into a package to perform on a glider is a huge robotics and systems engineering challenge. You need lots of computing power, longer battery life, and advanced control algorithms.”</p>
<p>Making a glider “think,” or respond to environmental cues, is all about predictive algorithms, he said.</p>
<p>“It is a little like looking at economic indicators in the stock market,” Hollinger pointed out. “Just one indicator is unlikely to tell you how a stock will perform. We need to develop an algorithm that essentially turns the glider into an autonomous vehicle that can run on autopilot.”</p>
<p>The three-year research project should benefit fisheries management, protection of endangered species, analyzing the impacts of new ocean uses such as wave energy, and documenting impacts of climate change, the researchers say.</p>
<p>Oregon State has become a national leader in the use of undersea gliders in research to study the coastal ocean and now owns and operates more than 20 of the instruments through three separate research initiatives. Barth said the vision is to establish a center for underwater vehicles and acoustics research – which would be a key component of its recently announced Marine Studies Initiative.</p>
<p>The university also has a growing program in robotics, of which Hollinger is a key faculty member. This collaborative project funded by Keck exemplifies the collaborative nature of research at Oregon State, the researchers say, where ecologists, oceanographers and roboticists work together.</p>
<p>“This project and the innovative technology could revolutionize how marine scientists study the world’s oceans,” Barth said.</p>
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<p>Coastal communities in 15 states that depend on the $1 billion shelled mollusk industry are at long-term economic risk from the increasing threat of ocean acidification.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Coastal communities in 15 states that depend on the $1 billion shelled mollusk industry (primarily oysters and clams) are at long-term economic risk from the increasing threat of ocean acidification, a new report concludes.</p>
<p>This first nationwide vulnerability analysis, which was funded through the National Science Foundation’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, was published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.</p>
<p>The Pacific Northwest has been the most frequently cited region with vulnerable shellfish populations, the authors say, but the report notes that newly identified areas of risk from acidification range from Maine to the Chesapeake Bay, to the bayous of Louisiana.</p>
<p>“Ocean acidification has already cost the oyster industry in the Pacific Northwest nearly $110 million and jeopardized about 3,200 jobs,” said Julie Ekstrom, who was lead author on the study while with the Natural Resources Defense Council. She is now at the University of California at Davis.</p>
<p><a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/waldbusser/">George Waldbusser</a>, an Oregon State University marine ecologist and biogeochemist, said the spreading impact of ocean acidification is due primarily to increases in greenhouse gases.</p>
<p>“This clearly illustrates the vulnerability of communities dependent on shellfish to ocean acidification,” said Waldbusser, a researcher in OSU’s <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/">College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences</a> and co-author on the paper. “We are still finding ways to increase the adaptive capacity of these communities and industries to cope, and refining our understanding of various species’ specific responses to acidification.</p>
<p>“Ultimately, however, without curbing carbon emissions, we will eventually run out of tools to address the short-term and we will be stuck with a much larger long-term problem,” Waldbusser added.</p>
<p>The analysis identified several “hot zones” facing a number of risk factors. These include:</p>
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<p>The project team has also developed an <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/hotspots.asp">interactive map</a> to explore the vulnerability factors regionally.</p>
<p>One concern, the authors say, is that many of the most economically dependent regions – including Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia and Louisiana – are least prepared to respond, with minimal research and monitoring assets for ocean acidification.</p>
<p>The Pacific Northwest, on the other hand, has a robust research effort led by Oregon State University researchers, who already have <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2012/apr/hatchery-managers-osu-scientists-link-ocean-acidification-larval-oyster-failure">helped oyster hatcheries rebound</a> from near-disastrous larval die-offs over the past decade. The university recently announced plans to launch a Marine Studies Initiative that would help address complex, multidisciplinary problems such as ocean acidification.</p>
<p>"The power of this project is the collaboration of natural and social scientists focused on a problem that has and will continue to impact industries dependent on the sea,” Waldbusser said.</p>
<p>Waldbusser recently led <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/dec/new-study-finds-%25E2%2580%259Csaturation-state%25E2%2580%259D-directly-harmful-bivalve-larvae-%25E2%2580%2593-not-carbon-di">a study</a> that documented how larval oysters are sensitive to a change in the “saturation state” of ocean water – which ultimately is triggered by an increase in carbon dioxide. The inability of ecosystems to provide enough alkalinity to buffer the increase in CO<sub>2</sub> is what kills young oysters in the environment.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State University Theatre’s 2014-15 season, which focuses on War and Remembrance, continues with the Lab Theatre production of Stephen Metcalf’s Vietnam-era play, “Strange Snow,” in March.</p>
<p>The production, directed by OSU Theatre Arts student Bryanna Rainwater, will run March 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. and March 8 at 2 p.m. in the Withycombe Hall Lab Theatre, 2901 S.W. Campus Way, Corvallis.</p>
<p>The play tells the story of a troubled past shared by two Vietnam veterans during a fishing trip on opening day of the season. Relationships develop through humor and heartache as Dave and Megs attempt to move on from a horrific event. The exploration of friendship and the impacts of war upon individuals and families serve as a reminder of the personal sacrifices made in military service.</p>
<p>“This play explores much more than what’s at the surface and reveals a lot about the human condition and what it is like to be vulnerable,” Rainwater said.</p>
<p>The production features the work of Oregon State students Amanda Kelner as Martha, Evan Butler as Megs and Brad Stone as Dave.</p>
<p>Tickets are $8 adults; $6 for seniors; $5 youth/student; and $4 for OSU students. They can be purchased online at <a href="http://bit.ly/1wgmTkJ">http://bit.ly/1wgmTkJ</a>&nbsp; or by calling the theatre box office at 541-737-2784. There is no reserved seating for this production. For more information or DAS accommodations, contact the box office.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Engineers at Oregon State University have completed one of the most precise evaluations yet done about the impact of a major tsunami event on the Columbia River, what forces are most important in controlling water flow and what areas might be inundated.</p>
<p>They found, in general, that tidal stages are far more important than river flow in determining the impact of a tsunami; that it would have its greatest effect at the highest tides of the year; and that a tsunami would be largely dissipated within about 50 miles of the river’s mouth, near Longview, Wash.</p>
<p>Any water level increases caused by a tsunami would be so slight as to be almost immeasurable around the Portland metropolitan area or Bonneville Dam, the study showed. But water could rise <a href="https://flic.kr/p/qcgUYG">as much as 13 feet just inside the mouth of the Columbia River</a>, and almost 7 feet within a few miles of Astoria.</p>
<p>“There have been previous models of Columbia River run-up as a result of a tsunami, but they had less resolution than this work,” said David Hill, an associate professor of civil engineering in the OSU College of Engineering. “We carefully considered the complex hydrodynamics, subsidence of grounds that a tsunami might cause, and the impacts during different scenarios.”</p>
<p>The impact of tsunamis on rivers is difficult to predict, researchers say, because many variables are involved that can either dampen or magnify their effect. Such factors can include the width and shape of river mouths, bays, river flow, tidal effects, and other forces.</p>
<p>But the major tsunami in Japan in 2011, which was caused by geologic forces similar to those facing the Pacific Northwest, also included significant inland reach and damage on local rivers. As a result, researchers are paying increased attention to the risks facing residents along such rivers.</p>
<p>The OSU research has been published in the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, by Hill and OSU graduate student Kirk Kalmbacher. It’s based on a major earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone and a resulting tsunami, with simulations done at different rivers flows; and high, low, flood and ebb tides.</p>
<p>Of some interest is that the lowest elevation of a tsunami wave generally occurs at a high tide, but its overall flooding impact is the greatest because the tide levels are already so high. Because of complex hydrodynamic interactions, the study also found that only on a flood tide would water actually wash up and over the southern spit of the Columbia River mouth, with some local flooding based on that.</p>
<p>Tides, overall, had much more impact on the reach of a tsunami than did the amount of water flowing in the river.</p>
<p>“We were a little surprised that the river’s water flow didn’t really matter that much,” Hill said. “The maximum reach of a tsunami on the Columbia will be based on the tidal level at the time, and of course the magnitude of the earthquake causing the event.”</p>
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<p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qRKoHJ">Maps have been developed</a> as a result of this research that make more precise estimates of the areas which might face tsunami-induced flooding. They should aid land owners and land use planners, Hill said, in making improved preparations for an event that researchers now say is inevitable in the region’s future. Experts believe this region faces subduction zone earthquakes every 300-600 years, and the last one occurred in January, 1700.</p>
<p>There are some noted differences in the projections on these newer maps and older ones, Hill said.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Author Jenny Boully will read from her works on Friday, March 6, at Oregon State University’s Valley Library rotunda on the Corvallis campus beginning at 7:30 p.m. A question and answer session and book signing will follow.</p>
<p>Boully is the author of four books, most recently “not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them,” from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her other books include “The Books of Beginnings and Endings,” (Sarabande Books) “[one love affair]*<em>”</em><em> </em>(Tarpaulin Sky Press), and “The Body: An Essay,” (Essay Press, first published by Slope Editions).</p>
<p>Boully’s chapbook of prose, “Moveable Types,” was released by Noemi Press. Her work has been anthologized in “The Best American Poetry,<em>” “</em>The Next American Essay,<em>” “</em>Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present,” and other places.</p>
<p>Boully was born in Thailand and raised in Texas. She attended Hollins University and went on to receive her M.A. in English Criticism and Writing. She also earned a master of fine arts from the University of Notre Dame and holds a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and daughter and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.</p>
<p>The reading is part of the 2014-15 <a href="http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/mfa/visiting-writers-series">Visiting Writers Series</a> sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. The series&nbsp;brings nationally known writers to Oregon State University.</p>
<p>The event is free and open to the public. The program is supported by OSU Libraries and Press, the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele and Grass Roots Books and Music.</p>
<p>The Valley Library is located at 201 S.W. Waldo Place on the OSU campus in Corvallis.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. — Conservation policies may reflect the practical benefits of nature — food, medicine, clean water and air. But in this week’s issue of Conservation Biology, three scientists present a scientific and philosophical case for conserving nature on its own merits.</p>
<p>Some conservationists, they point out, suggest that preserving nature for its inherent value is arbitrary, subjective and unlikely to motivate most people. The sometimes contentious debate focuses in part on the idea that every organism in the natural world has innate worth regardless of whether or not it has “instrumental values” that benefit humans.</p>
<p>“This paper changes the conversation by calling for rigorous thought and evidence in the discussion of intrinsic versus instrumental value,” said Michael Paul Nelson, a professor of environmental ethics in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. John A. Vucetich, animal ecologist at Michigan Technological University is lead author, and Nelson and Jeremy Bruskotter, an environmental sociologist at Ohio State University, are co-authors.</p>
<p>Recognition that nature has intrinsic value, they write, “represents a well-reasoned justification for conservation.” Moreover, just as the intrinsic value of human beings provides a cornerstone for social justice, extending such values to nature would require that environmental policies incorporate concepts of fairness, equality and well-being in decisions that affect the natural world.</p>
<p>Scientists have estimated that more than 80 percent of the Earth’s land mass is influenced by human activity. “Habitat loss and the introduction of non-native species are having tremendous impacts on plants and animals,” said Vucetich. “If conservation policies are guided solely by human interests, then we’re dishonoring the moral value of those creatures.”&nbsp;</p>
<p>According to the authors, other conservationists argue that the value of the natural world cannot be adequately quantified in dollars and cents. However, using such a measure as a basis for policy, they write, “entirely misses the obligation that intrinsic value entails — to be truly concerned with treating an intrinsically valuable object in a just manner or with concern for its welfare.”</p>
<p>Moreover, some have argued, recognizing the intrinsic value of nature leaves conservationists open to being viewed as anti-human or misanthropic. “Skeptics of nature’s intrinsic value sometimes ask, What good is ‘it’, anyway? Where ‘it’ might refer to the giant burying beetle, the devil’s hole pupfish, the Dusky seaside sparrow, or any object in nature whose instrumental value is not appreciated,” Nelson and his colleagues write. Following that logic, they add, it would be reasonable to ask, “What good are you?”</p>
<p>The authors suggest that organisms, both singly and collectively, possess many of the same attributes that underlie the intrinsic value of humans, such as the ability to experience pain, to sense their environment or to flourish. “The critical question is,” they write, “What is the best means for weighing and adjudicating competing values that involve intrinsic values?”</p>
<p>Nature is explicitly recognized in policies such as the Endangered Species Act, the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity and the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species. In addition, legal scholars such as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas have argued that nature should have standing in court proceedings through the participation of knowledgeable representatives. In Pennsylvania, a grassroots group invoked the “rights of nature” in 2014 by including the Little Mahoning watershed’s interests in a lawsuit over oil and gas wells.</p>
<p>Researchers have barely scratched the surface to understand how notions of intrinsic value should affect public attitudes toward conservation, the authors add. Rather than being a “flimsy notion” that distracts from the development of sound conservation measures, they conclude, the intrinsic value of nature provides a robust and necessary basis for developing a conservation-based relationship with nature.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Activist, writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will give the annual Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture for World Peace at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at Oregon State University in Corvallis.</p>
<p>The 32nd annual lecture, “The Future of the United States,” will be held in the Austin Auditorium at LaSells Stewart Center, 875 S.W. 26th St. The event is free and open to the public.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part<strong>-</strong>Indian mother. She has been active in the international indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her commitment to national and international social justice issues.</p>
<p>After earning a doctorate in history at University of California, Los Angeles, Dunbar-Ortiz taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the departments of ethnic studies and women’s studies.</p>
<p>Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of several books, including “Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico,” and most recently, “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.”</p>
<p>The OSU lectureship honors Linus Pauling, an OSU graduate and two-time Nobel Prize laureate, and his wife, Ava Helen Pauling, a noted peace activist. It is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – A report to be published Thursday in the journal Nature suggests that global warming may increase upwelling in several ocean current systems around the world by the end of this century, especially at high latitudes, and will cause major changes in marine biodiversity.</p>
<p>Since upwelling of colder, nutrient-rich water is a driving force behind marine productivity, one possibility may be enhancement of some of the world’s most important fisheries.</p>
<p>However, solar heating due to greenhouse warming may also increase the persistence of “stratification,” or the horizontal layering of ocean water of different temperatures. The result could be a warm, near-surface layer and a deep, cold layer.</p>
<p>If this happens to a significant extent, it could increase global hypoxic, or low-oxygen events, decouple upwelling from the supply of nutrient-rich water, and pose a significant threat to the global function of fisheries and marine ecosystems.</p>
<p>The projected increase in upwelling, in other words, appears clear and definitive. But researchers say its biological impact is far less obvious, which is a significant concern.</p>
<p>These upwelling systems cover less than 2 percent of the ocean surface, but contribute 7 percent to global marine primary production, and 20 percent of global fish catches.</p>
<p>“Our modeling indicates that normally weaker upwelling toward the polar ends of upwelling-dominated regions will strengthen,” said Bruce Menge, the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology in the College of Science at Oregon State University, and co-author of the report.</p>
<p>“Ordinarily, you would expect that an increase in upwelling would mean an increase in marine coastal productivity, and that might happen,” Menge said.</p>
<p>“However, a thicker and warmer top later, and more stratified ocean waters may put the cold, nutrient-rich waters too deep for upwelling to bring them up, and reduce the ability of upwelling to energize the coastal ocean food web,” he said. “This could have a very negative impact on marine production and fisheries.”</p>
<p>The findings were made by researchers from OSU and Northeastern University, in work supported by that university and the National Science Foundation.</p>
<p>Another possibility, the study concluded, are changes in the frequency or severity of low-oxygen, or “hypoxic” events such as those that have plagued the Pacific Northwest in the past decade. Depending on where the layers of warm and cold water end up, as well as local subsea terrain and currents, the hypoxic events could become either less common or more severe. In a hypoxic event, microbial decay of phytoplankton blooms uses up the available oxygen, causes hypoxia, and often leads to a die-off of fish and other marine organisms.</p>
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<p>Researchers said that by understanding these climate-mediated “hotspots” in upwelling, and how they will change in the future, it may be possible to better manage productive fisheries and coastal ecosystems around the world.</p>
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<p>A cultural center for international students at Oregon State University is getting a new home, which will be celebrated this weekend at an event filled with music and food.</p>
<p>The International Resource Center opened its doors on the west side of the Memorial Union lounge in 2009, with support from student affairs and international program staff. Operated primarily by the International Students of Oregon State University (ISOSU), the center has become a focal point for a number of internationally-based cultural activities and events on campus.</p>
<p>Last week the center moved into its new home in the Student Experience Center, a relocation that creates more opportunities for networking, programming and exposure, student organizers say.</p>
<p>A grand opening for the new center will be held this Saturday, Feb. 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.&nbsp; The event will feature food from around the globe and the music of DeCajon, a Seattle based Afro-Peruvian music and dance ensemble.</p>
<p>ISOSU will also host the 2015 Winter Showcase, featuring a performance from Monica Rojas (past ISOSU president) and DeCajon, which will be followed by OSU students showcasing their talents.&nbsp;It takes place Feb. 21, 7 p.m., in the MU Ballroom. Tickets are $5 for non OSU students and available at the door.</p>
<p>In its infancy, the International Resource Center offered a coffee hour every two weeks, ISOSU co-director Rone Nop said, and then evolved to include poetry nights, game events and cultural heritage nights, as well as programming around religion and spirituality.</p>
<p>“Eventually, we decided to narrow our palate, so that we weren’t diluting the programming,” Nop said.</p>
<p>As they prepare to celebrate their new space, the center staff has focused programming on a smaller series of offerings. The coffee hours and cultural heritage nights will continue due to their popularity (co-director Estefania Arellana said they’re always sold-out events). Additionally, there is a series called “The Dangers of a Single Perspective” that examines a hot topic issue from a variety of multi-cultural perspectives.</p>
<p>A cultural exposition similar to a talent show helps students from around the world showcase pieces from their own culture, including song, dance and story-telling.</p>
<p>“We’re at capacity for all these events,” said Robin Ryan, associate director of Student Leadership &amp; Involvement. “Now we’ll be able to serve more students in the new space, and move from more random events to programming with very intentional learning outcomes.”</p>
<p>The new space will provide opportunities for other student groups with similar multicultural perspectives to present programming, and will increase the opportunities for student engagement with open workshops and other events.</p>
<p>In addition to the larger space, the center will also have an added draw – a huge collection of international dolls donated by the McHenry Family. The collection includes 247 dolls gathered from around the world, which will be on display in a large case at the entrance to the new center.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University’s second annual off-campus housing expo will connect property managers, campus offices and community agencies with Oregon State students – an event that last year drew more than 1,000 students.</p>
<p>This year’s expo will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Memorial Union ballroom. An added feature in 2015 will be a series of “Live Smart” workshops designed to provide OSU students with tools to become informed tenants and responsible neighbors.</p>
<p>The event is open to all OSU students and is particularly aimed at students transitioning to off-campus housing and living, according to Jonathan Stoll, director of Corvallis Community Relations.</p>
<p>“It’s important that we provide students with the resources necessary to be good neighbors and to successfully transition to living off-campus,” Stoll said. “Living on one’s own for the first time is a big step – and for some of our students, this will be the first time without the conveniences and accommodations that University Housing and Dining Services provides its students, from residential advisers and tutors to meal plans, cable, internet and most utilities.”&nbsp;</p>
<p>Workshops topics will include local laws and ordinances, tips on hosting responsible parties, safety and security, financial literacy, and tenant rights and responsibilities. The workshops aim to improve livability by fostering a commitment to community that upholds Corvallis’ ranking as one of the nation’s top college towns and best places to live, Stoll said.</p>
<p>“Most students have embraced being members of Beaver Nation and the Associated Students of Oregon State University is excited to spearhead a program that helps students embrace being members of our Corvallis community,” said Cassie Hubers, executive director of community resources for ASOSU.</p>
<p>Stoll said students who complete the Live Smart workshops and pass a corresponding preferred renters exam will receive a $50 rental deposit credit – a program endorsed by the Corvallis Rental Property Management Group. The proposed credit would be limited to properties electing to participate in the preferred renters program.</p>
<p>More information on the expo, including a list of workshops and participating vendors, is available at: <a href="http://studentlife.oregonstate.edu/ccr/community-and-u/2015-housing-expo">http://studentlife.oregonstate.edu/ccr/community-and-u/2015-housing-expo</a></p>
<p>For additional information, contact Cassie Hubers at 541-737-7111 or <a href="mailto:asosu.community@oregonstate.edu">asosu.community@oregonstate.edu</a>; or Jonathan Stoll at 541-737-8606, <a href="mailto:jonathan.stoll@oregonstate.edu">jonathan.stoll@oregonstate.edu</a></p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study suggests that changing climate patterns may be altering the life cycles of blacklegged ticks in the northeastern United States, which could increase transmission among animals – and ultimately humans – of certain pathogens, including the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.</p>
<p>Other colder regions of the country that have sufficient populations of blacklegged ticks – particularly Wisconsin and Minnesota – may also experience a higher risk of Lyme disease. However, the changing life cycles of the ticks may result in a less-likely probability of transmitting a more deadly pathogen that results in Powassan encephalitis, the researchers say.</p>
<p>Results of the research are being published this week in a special issue of <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B</em> dedicated to climate change and vector-borne diseases.</p>
<p>A team of scientists led by <a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/content/taal-levi">Taal Levi</a> of Oregon State University and <a href="http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/our-scientists/dr-richard-s-ostfeld">Richard Ostfeld</a> of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies analyzed 19 years of data on blacklegged ticks in the Northeast and their relationship to “host” animals ranging from small rodents to deer and other larger mammals. They then overlaid the results with climate data and used computer models to predict what may happen in the future.</p>
<p>“The bottom line is that as the climate warms, it is pushing the timing of tick nymphs and larvae forward, potentially changing the interactions they have with their hosts,” said Levi, an assistant professor in OSU’s <a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/">Department of Fisheries and Wildlife</a> in the College of Agricultural Sciences and lead author on the study.</p>
<p>“October is a key month,” he added, “because the difference between a cold fall and a warmer fall can have a profound effect on when the ticks interact with their hosts.”</p>
<p>Blacklegged ticks can be found in hardwood forests all along the eastern seaboard as well as in the northern states. They have a two-year life cycle that goes from eggs, to larva, to nymphs to adults.</p>
<p>After adult ticks lay eggs in the spring, the larvae emerge in the summer and in August and September they begin looking for a host to feed upon – usually mice, voles and other small rodents. They are not born infected with pathogens, but can become infected after feeding upon an infected host. However, their feeding lasts only a few days and they then become inactive and thus are not a threat to humans or large mammals at this stage.</p>
<p>As they transform to nymphs, they become active the following spring when they begin looking for a host. If not previously infected as larva, they can become infected again by selecting a host carrying a pathogen. Studies have shown that as many as one out of four blacklegged tick nymphs carry the Lyme disease bacterium.</p>
<p>“This is where climate change comes in,” Levi said. “When nymphs emerge months before larvae, they inoculate the host community with pathogens that the later-emerging larvae can then contract. The Lyme disease pathogen is long-lived – it will remain in the host. So an increasing gap between the nymphs feeding in the spring and the next cohort of larvae feeding in late summer will give the nymphs more time to infect the hosts with bacterium that can then be passed to the next generation of tick larvae.”</p>
<p>Since ticks can’t fly or jump, they usually find hosts by hanging onto the ends of grass blades or small branches and attaching themselves to animals. This hit-or-miss approach results in some tick larvae that don’t find a host. And if the weather is cold and activity ceases early, the number of larva that “over-winter” increases.</p>
<p>When that happens, the larva and nymphs are more likely to feed at the same time, the researchers say, and that may increase the chance of transmitting the pathogen causing Powassan encephalitis, which can be deadly but is very short-lived in hosts. The disease causes mortality in about 10 percent of human patients, and persistent illness in another 50 percent.</p>
<p>“Luckily the pathogen for Powassan doesn’t persist for very long, but having synchronous activity between larva and nymphs makes transmission more likely,” Levi said. “If autumn temperatures increase, it looks like fewer larvae will overwinter to feed at the same time as nymphs, which should reduce the risk of Powassan virus.”</p>
<p>It is the nymph stage that is most problematic for humans, the researchers say. The larva usually target rodents, which are low to the ground and plentiful. Adult ticks can easily transmit the Lyme disease pathogen, but adult males do not feed and females usually target deer and other woodland creatures. Also, it takes three days for Lyme disease to establish after a tick bite and most people will spot and remove the tick within that time.</p>
<p>Powassan transmission, however, is almost immediate – hence the concern for colder climate states.</p>
<p>Blacklegged ticks also inhabit the western United States, though in much fewer numbers. Tick transmission of Lyme disease has grown rapidly in the Northeast, however, with estimates of 200,000 cases per year in New York alone.</p>
<p>The study was supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency and Dutchess County, N.Y. Other researchers on the study include Felicia Keesing of Bard College; and Kelly Oggenfuss and Richard Ostfeld of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.</p>
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college of agricultural sciencesscientific research and advancesTue, 17 Feb 2015 17:52:33 +0000floydma16269 at http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncshttp://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/feb/climate-change-may-affect-tick-life-cycles-lyme-diseaseSmoke-free campus policy enjoys wide support, new OSU research showshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OSU-All-News/~3/UPP-mKo2Les/smoke-free-campus-policy-enjoys-wide-support-new-osu-research-shows
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Students, faculty and staff at Oregon State University have largely embraced a new policy that prohibits smoking on the Corvallis campus, but the policy change hasn’t completely eliminated secondhand smoke exposure, new research shows.</p>
<p>A campus-wide study of the first year of the university’s smoke-free policy showed that 72 percent of students and 77 percent of faculty were in support of the new policy, which took effect in September 2012. That number is expected to rise as people become accustomed to the policy, said <a href="http://health.oregonstate.edu/people/braverman-marc">Marc Braverman</a>, a professor and Extension specialist in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at OSU and the study’s lead author.</p>
<p>“The more people live with the change, the more supportive they tend to become,” Braverman said. “We’re not trying to force smokers to quit. We’re trying to address the health concerns brought on by secondhand smoke. This is a clean air policy.”</p>
<p>However, about 77 percent of students and 55 percent of faculty and staff who responded to a survey on the policy reported that they had encountered secondhand smoke near the periphery of the campus within the previous two weeks. In addition, 29 percent of students and 18 percent of faculty and staff said they had been exposed to secondhand smoke near a building entrance on campus in that same time period.</p>
<p>The shift of smoking to campus boundaries is to be expected if people are following the policy, and other universities have experienced the same problem, Braverman said. One of the next steps is figuring out how to reduce the impact of that shift, both in terms of secondhand smoke exposure and other issues, including an increase in cigarette butts and other trash in common smoking locations just off campus.</p>
<p>Findings from the study were published in the February issue of the journal, “<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743514005003">Preventive Medicine</a>.” Co-authors are Lisa Hoogesteger, director of OSU’s Healthy Campus Initiatives, and Jessica Johnson, who was a graduate student in public health when the research was conducted. The study was supported by OSU and a grant from PacificSource Health Plans.</p>
<p>Researchers wanted to evaluate the policy implementation because more and more colleges and universities are adopting smoke-free or tobacco-free campus policies, Braverman said. When the idea was initially proposed at OSU in 2008, only 130 campuses nationwide were smoke-free or tobacco-free. As of last month, that number has jumped to 1,500 campuses, according to Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, an advocacy group that tracks tobacco policies nationwide.</p>
<p>“It’s gotten to be quite a popular movement, but there is not a lot of information about the best ways to implement a policy like this or what a campus should expect when it does,” Braverman said.</p>
<p>In spring 2013, after almost a full academic year with the policy in place, the researchers invited all students, staff and faculty at OSU’s Corvallis campus to take a web-based survey. More than 5,600 students and 2,000 faculty and staff members responded.</p>
<p>The research team found that there was widespread awareness of the policy change: 89 percent of nonsmoking students and 90 percent of smoking students knew OSU was a nonsmoking campus, while 92 percent of nonsmoking faculty and staff and 99 percent of smoking faculty and staff knew about the policy.</p>
<p>The survey results offer a snapshot of how the policy has been received. Researchers cannot say whether the policy had more or less support at the time of the survey than when it was first enacted because they do not have comparable survey results from that prior point in time.</p>
<p>Survey results showed that nonsmokers were much more likely to favor the policy than smokers. Researchers also found that women were more supportive of the policy than men; international students were more supportive than students from the U.S.; and students who live in a residence hall or belong to a fraternity or sorority were somewhat less likely to support the policy.</p>
<p>While support for the policy was widespread, only 22 percent of students and 29 percent of faculty and staff said they would ask a smoker to put out a cigarette if they saw somebody smoking on campus.</p>
<p>“Enforcement poses some logistical challenges,” Hoogesteger said. “And there are going to be people who challenge the policy.”</p>
<p>Adding signage about the new policy across campus and continuing to educate people about the policy are two ways to help ensure the policy is followed, Hoogesteger said. Secondhand smoke exposure and increased trash in areas near campus boundaries are concerns that need addressing. The university, in conjunction with state and local health officials, also offers resources to help people quit smoking, if they choose to, the researchers said.</p>
<p>More information about Oregon State’s smoke-free policy, including a summary of the study, is available online at <a href="http://www.oregonstate.edu/smokefree">www.oregonstate.edu/smokefree</a>.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study has found evidence from the deep ocean that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – a system of currents that brings warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic region and keeps its climate more moderate – declined at the end of the last ice age.</p>
<p>Some scientists have long suspected that was the case because the North Atlantic cooled at a time the rest of the planet was warming, but evidence to support the theory has been sparse or indirect. However, the new study, which utilized 25 deep ocean sediment cores and a corresponding computer model, determined that the AMOC not only declined – the process may have pumped more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.</p>
<p>Results of the study have just been published in the open access journal Climate of the Past. It was supported by the National Science Foundation.</p>
<p>“There has long been a feeling that if the deep ocean was changing at the end of the last ice age, there should be evidence from the deep ocean to document it – and that has been lacking,” said <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/profile/schmittner/">Andreas Schmittner</a>, a climate modeling scientist at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.</p>
<p>“The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation enhances the biological pump, and if it declined it should have had an impact on primary productivity as well as the overall climate for the region,” added Schmittner, an associate professor in Oregon State’s <a href="http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/">College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences</a>.</p>
<p>Schmittner and his colleague <a href="http://www.marinesciences.uconn.edu/faculty/faculty.php?users=dal13007">David Lund</a> from the University of Connecticut used evidence from 25 sediment cores taken primarily from the Atlantic Ocean, but also from the Indian and Pacific Ocean, which showed a change in the carbon isotope ratio over a period of 3,000 to 4,000 years that began some 19,000 years ago.</p>
<p>The isotopes show up in the shells of tiny organisms called foraminifera that are found in deep ocean sediment cores. When they were alive, their carbonate shells accumulated two carbon isotopes – C-12, a lighter isotope, and C-13, which is heavier. Scientists can tell by the ratio of the two isotopes how ocean circulation and biological productivity were changing and how that affected atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.</p>
<p>When productivity lessened with the decline of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, there was more C-13 in the ocean compared to C-12 – except in the North Atlantic, where C-13 decreased strongly in comparison to C-12.&nbsp; An abundance of C-12, on the other hand, indicates that the current system was strong and plankton blooms were plentiful.</p>
<p>To test the evidence, Schmittner ran a computer model combining equations for the physical processes and the chemical and biological processes and said they matched the sediment core data very closely.</p>
<p>“You can divide the oceans of the world into small boxes and look at the physical processes like water velocity, salinity and nutrients to predict plankton growth, sinking rates after death, and how the carbon cycle is affected,” he said.</p>
<p>“What we did next was to plug into the model the influx of fresh water into the North Atlantic that would have come from the melting of ice sheets and glaciers and see how that would have affected both the physics and the biology,” he added. “What we found in the ice cores was eerily similar to what the computer model predicted.”</p>
<p>Schmittner and Lund’s model matched ice core data from Antarctica that show increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere right after the end of the last glacial maximum (19,000 years before present) for several thousand years. Schmittner’s model suggests that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation decline pulled carbon dioxide from the deep ocean and gradually released it into the atmosphere.</p>
<p>“The current affects the biological pump and if you turn the current off, you reduce the pump and you have less productivity,” Schmittner said. “The system then pulls carbon dioxide from the deep ocean and it winds up in the atmosphere.”</p>
<p>The researchers note that future global warming may again slow down the circulation because as surface waters warm, they become more buoyant and are less likely to sink – a key process to maintaining the system of currents in the Atlantic. The addition of fresh water from melting ice sheets may compound the slowdown.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Four Oregon State University volunteer leaders who have played key roles in the university’s advancement will be honored at the Destination OSU awards banquet in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, Feb. 20.</p>
<p>Honorees are James H. Rudd of Lake Oswego; Suzanne Phelps McGrath and Bernard K. McGrath of Portland; and Harold Ashford of Bend.</p>
<p>“The transformation of Oregon State University over the last decade could not have taken place without dedicated volunteers who shared their expertise, helped us make connections and were leaders in giving,” said OSU president Edward J. Ray. “Jim, Harold and Sue and Bernie are extraordinary examples.”&nbsp;</p>
<p>The OSU Foundation will present its highest honor, the Lifetime Trustee Award, to Rudd, CEO and principal of Ferguson Wellman Capital Management. He was a foundation trustee from 1993 to 2007, serving as chair when the university publicly launched its first comprehensive fundraising campaign. Rudd co-chaired a committee guiding The Campaign for OSU, which concluded at the end of 2014 after raising $1.14 billion to support university priorities.</p>
<p>The university named Rudd an honorary alumnus in 2006. He joins other lifetime trustees: Robert W. Lundeen of Deer Harbor, Washington; and Portland area residents C.W. Knodell, Duane McDougall, Kenneth R. Poorman, Norbert J. Wellman and Benjamin R. Whiteley.</p>
<p>Ashford will receive the OSU Alumni Association’s Dan Poling Service Award, an honor named for an influential dean of men who served the university for more than five decades. Head of a Bend accounting firm and a 1972 Oregon State alumnus, Ashford serves as an OSU Foundation trustee and helped to build relationships between leaders in Central Oregon and OSU-Cascades. The rapidly growing branch campus is expanding from a two-year degree completion program to a four-year university and will enroll its first freshmen this fall.</p>
<p>The McGraths will receive the Martin Chaves Lifetime Achievement Award from OSU Athletics. The award honors the legacy of Chaves, who was captain of the 1942 Rose Bowl team and became an influential booster in various fundraising activities.</p>
<p>In addition to being loyal supporters of OSU football, the McGraths, class of 1970 graduates, made an especially significant impact as volunteer fundraisers for the renovation of Goss Stadium and the creation of the Pat Casey Baseball Endowment. Both have served on numerous OSU boards. Bernie McGrath, who is retired from a teaching career with the Tigard-Tualatin School District, is currently vice president of the Our Beaver Nation advisory board. Sue McGrath is president of Vision Capital Management.</p>
<p>The Destination OSU awards gala at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Scottsdale will include a special appearance by OSU's new head football coach, Gary Andersen. He will join OSU head baseball coach Pat Casey at an athletics event on Feb. 21. Earlier that day, Oregon State supporters will gather for a tailgater before the OSU Beavers play Oklahoma in the Pac-12 versus Big 12 baseball tournament in Surprise, Ariz.</p>
<p>This is the third consecutive year Oregon State alumni and friends have gathered in Arizona for Destination OSU. The state is home to more than 3,000 OSU graduates: the largest concentration of alumni beyond Oregon, Washington and California. Destination OSU is presented by the OSU Foundation, OSU Alumni Association and OSU Athletics. Event registration and information: <a href="http://campaignforosu.org/events/dosu/2015/pre/">osufoundation.org/DestinationOSU</a>.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – The 15<sup>th</sup> annual Oregon Small Farms Conference, which drew 800 people last year, takes place Feb. 28 at Oregon State University.</p>
<p>The event, one of the flagship educational offerings of <a href="http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/">OSU Extension Service’s Small Farms Program</a>, is geared toward farmers, agriculture professionals, food policy advocates, students, restaurant owners, food retailers and managers of farmers markets. Over the years, participants have learned how to harvest rainwater, market meat products, develop a business plan, sell products to schools, graft vegetables and lease land.</p>
<p>This year, presenters will include farmers, OSU faculty and representatives of agribusiness and government agencies. Five of the speakers, including Jean-Martin Fortier, will conduct full-day sessions.</p>
<p>Fortier founded the organic farm Jardins de la Grelinette near Quebec, which is recognized internationally for its high productivity and profitability using low-tech, high-yield methods of production. A graduate of the McGill School of Environment in Montreal, Fortier is a passionate advocate for strengthening local food systems and has facilitated more than 50 workshops and conferences in Canada, France, Belgium and the United States promoting the idea of micro-scale farming. His session covers Six Figure Farming for Small Plots.</p>
<p>In addition, the <a href="http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/sfc">Oregon Small Farms Conference</a> will feature 24 workshops, including three in Spanish, on topics that include:</p>
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<li>Exploring the small farm dream;</li>
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<p>The cost, which includes lunch, is $65 per person or $100 at the door. Registration is open until midnight on Feb. 18. The conference will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the LaSells Stewart Center. To register, go to the <a href="http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/sfc">Small Farms Conference website.</a></p>
<p>OSU will host a free screening of the documentary <a href="http://www.hareinthegate.com/">“Dryland”</a> at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 at the conference center.</p>
<p>An after-conference hootenanny with dinner, local beer and cider, and dancing to live music will start at 5 p.m. Tickets are $15 through Feb. 15, and then $20.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – Identifying the population of people with mental illness who have frequent contact with police could help law enforcement officials and community agencies allocate limited resources to those with the highest needs, new research from Oregon State University indicates.&nbsp;</p>
<p>These individuals, often referred to as “frequent fliers” because of their repeated interaction with law enforcement, can consume a large amount of police time and resources, according to researchers in the <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/cla/spp/">School of Public Policy</a> in OSU’s <a href="http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/">College of Liberal Arts</a>.</p>
<p>Identifying and understanding the population can aid policymakers as they work to reduce the frequent and time-consuming interactions, sociologists <a href="http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/spp/sociology/scott-akins">Scott Akins</a> and <a href="http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/spp/sociology/brett-c-burkhardt">Brett Burkhardt</a> said.</p>
<p>“This contact is rarely criminal in nature at the outset,” said Burkhardt, an assistant professor of sociology. “It’s usually a peace officer custody arrest, which is a type of arrest that occurs because a person is believed to be a danger to themselves or others due to a suspected mental illness. But there’s a limited amount of resources, so if we identify people with the highest needs, we can focus resources on those folks.”</p>
<p>Once a local region has identified its population of frequent fliers, community agencies and policy-makers can use the information to change or implement policies to assist those with the highest needs, the researchers said.</p>
<p>“It’s a strategic way to create a more cost-effective and humane way to assist the mentally ill,” said Akins, an associate professor of sociology.</p>
<p>For example, some communities may benefit from the use of mental health courts to address criminal charges for people with mental health needs, he said. Typically in such courts, a collaborative team that includes attorneys, parole and probation representatives and mental health agency representatives work together to address the individual’s needs. That may include a referral for counseling or substance abuse treatment.</p>
<p>Burkhardt and Akins began researching frequent fliers in 2012 in collaboration with law enforcement officials in Corvallis and Benton County. Law enforcement officials had noticed what they believed was an increase in calls related to suspected mental health issues.</p>
<p>They asked Akins, Burkhardt and a team of graduate students to determine if that was in fact the case and, if so, to assist with some potential responses to the trend. The researchers’ findings and recommendations were published recently in the journal “<a href="http://cjp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/28/0887403414559268.abstract">Criminal Justice Policy Review</a>.”</p>
<p>The study was co-authored by Charles Lanfear, who worked on the project as a graduate student at OSU. The research was supported by OSU as well as by the Benton County Sheriff’s office, which provided funding for a graduate student internship related to the research.</p>
<p>Akins and Burkhardt reviewed six years of records, from 2007 through 2012, from the Corvallis Police Department and Benton County Sheriff’s Office and found that peace officer custody arrests increased dramatically from 2011 to 2012, jumping from 144 to 245.</p>
<p>They also found that time spent on mental-health related calls – those where the subject was believed to have a mental illness or mental health crisis – nearly doubled during the six-year period, going from 248 hours annually to 489 hours.</p>
<p>In addition, the researchers determined that of the 697 people placed in peace officer custody for mental health issues, about 17 percent were taken into custody multiple times. A smaller group of 38 frequent fliers had multiple mental health-related arrests in a 14-day span.</p>
<p>“This study validated our perspective that law enforcement contacts with community members having a mental health crisis have significantly risen over the past few years,” Corvallis Police Chief Jon Sassaman said. “It also showed how important it is that we work with all community assets to support individuals in need to prevent situations from generating a law enforcement response.”</p>
<p>While the research focused on Corvallis and Benton County, the method used to identify the frequent fliers is easily replicable by other agencies, the researchers said. That’s important because the rise in police contact with the mentally ill is not unique to Corvallis and Benton County. People with mental illness are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system across the country, Burkhardt said.</p>
<p>Police interaction with individuals with mental health issues can be time-consuming and frustrating for law enforcement officials, who may have some crisis intervention training but are not experts in working with the mentally ill, the researchers said. In addition, the contact can have the potential to become volatile.</p>
<p>The researchers’ findings highlight the need for ongoing collaboration and communication between law enforcement officials and health agencies that are likely to encounter the frequent flier population, the researchers said. In Benton County, local agencies are now exploring the feasibility of a mental health court and are looking at ways to maximize existing systems that have been under-used in the past, Sassaman said.</p>
<p>Akins and Burkhardt said agencies may want to make the monitoring of their frequent flier population part of their regular data collection. They also recommend studying any policy changes made based on the data, to see if the changes have a positive effect in reducing police contact with the mentally ill.</p>
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<p>A new study has found that both the population and habitat of Pacific lamprey - an ecologically and culturally important species - are declining in western Oregon.</p>
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<p>CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study aimed at understanding habitat needs for Pacific lamprey in western Oregon found this once-abundant fish that is both ecologically and culturally significant prefers side channels and other lower water velocity habitats in streams.</p>
<p>However, because of the legacy of historic land uses in the Northwest – including human settlement and activities – these habitats are much less common than they were in the past. And that may explain why populations of lamprey have declined over the past several decades – not only in western Oregon, but throughout the Pacific Northwest.</p>
<p>Results of the study were just published in the Ecology of Freshwater Fish.</p>
<p>“The lamprey decline has probably been going on for the past half century, but it wasn’t until the last 15-20 years that it has been recognized by many in the scientific community,” said <a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/content/luke-schultz">Luke Schultz</a>, a research assistant in Oregon State University’s <a href="http://fw.oregonstate.edu/">Department of Fisheries and Wildlife</a> and lead author on the study. “Today lamprey populations are at about 5 to 10 percent of the 1960s totals at Bonneville Dam, and the story is much the same elsewhere.</p>
<p>“The Willamette River basin is one of the few places that still appears to have decent numbers of lamprey because of its system of sloughs and side channels,” he added. “But they are facing new threats, such as introduced fish species that prey on them – especially bass – so we’ll likely be hearing more about this emerging threat in the next few years.”</p>
<p>Schultz is project leader Oregon Cooperative Fish Research Unit’s Pacific lamprey project – a joint effort between OSU and the U.S. Geological Survey that is seeking to learn more about the fish and restore its habitat. Although this latest article focuses on the Willamette Basin, Schultz and his colleagues at OSU, the USGS, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have looked at lamprey populations and habitat from the Columbia River in northeastern Oregon to southern Oregon’s Umpqua River.</p>
<p>The causes of Pacific lamprey decline are myriad, the researchers say. Restoring their numbers will require mitigation in the form of restoring habitat to include complex channels and deep pools, and the removal of barriers that block access to spawning grounds for adult lampreys, the authors note.</p>
<p>“Removal or mitigation will allow lampreys to recolonize those areas,” Schultz said.</p>
<p>Some factors affecting the lamprey decline may be out of the researchers’ control, Schultz said, specifically ocean conditions. They require an abundance of food; ocean conditions that are favorable to salmon are usually beneficial for lampreys, as well. Rather than swimming freely, they may attach themselves to large fishes, or even whales, sea lions or other marine animals – and the abundant ocean prey lets them grow large.</p>
<p>“Pacific lamprey may spend one or two years in the ocean,” Schultz noted. “They will weigh less than an ounce when they go out there as juveniles, and they may grow to 30 inches in length and up to two pounds before they return.”</p>
<p>Although Pacific lampreys are anadromous, another species, the brook lamprey, only grows to a length of 6-7 inches and stays in fresh water for its entire lifespan of 4-8 years.</p>
<p>It is the Pacific lamprey that researchers are focusing on because of their one-time abundance, larger size, and more prominent ecological role.</p>
<p>“These are really interesting animals that have historic importance in the Pacific Northwest,” Schultz noted. “They can live up to about 10 years or so – about three times longer than the coho salmon life cycle – and they are roughly six times as energy-dense as salmon, making them important prey.</p>
<p>“Because of that, I like to call them swimming sticks of butter.”</p>
<p>When lampreys are abundant, they reduce predation by a variety of species – especially sea lions, but also sturgeon, birds, bass and walleye – on juvenile salmon and steelhead. It may not be an accident that salmonid numbers have declined at the same time lamprey populations have diminished.</p>
<p>The research in the study has led to some habitat restoration work supported by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Helping lamprey populations recover has important social significance as well as ecological importance, Schultz said.</p>
<p>“Lampreys were an incredibly important resource for many Northwest tribes because they provided a source of protein in the summer months when salmon weren’t as readily available,” he noted. “Now the only place where there is even a limited tribal harvest is at Willamette Falls.”</p>
<p>More information on lampreys is available in this feature article in OSU’s Terra Magazine: <a href="http://bit.ly/1fhu8k4">http://bit.ly/1fhu8k4</a></p>
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